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Reasonable Faith Podcast

Teaching Children About Sin

Reasonable Faith Podcast

William Lane Craig

Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Christianity

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2019

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Craig interacts with a blogger who claims that teaching children they are 'sinners' is damaging to them!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Come out Virginia, don't let it wait.

0:04.0

If your Catholic girl start much too late.

0:07.0

Oh, the sooner or later it comes down to fate.

0:11.0

I'll height is where we'll be the one the one well they show you a statue told you to

0:16.5

pray they built to the temple and locked you away but they never told you the

0:22.1

price that you pay things that you might Why my innocent son will Never Learn About Sin.

0:34.6

Dr Craig, this is a blog called Without a Crystal Ball by Katie Paulson.

0:39.7

I need to say from the outset that she's addressing her Catholic upbringing, which she apparently

0:44.6

rejects, but we're addressing the broader issues that she's bringing up and not making it all

0:50.9

about Catholicism.

0:52.4

But this is how she begins the blog.

0:54.1

She writes,

0:54.8

When I was a child, I will never forget

0:56.6

the first time I had to go to confession.

0:58.6

At seven years old, a priest instructed me

1:00.7

that I was born a sinner.

1:02.4

Naturally, I wanted to know what made born a sinner. Naturally I wanted to know what made me a

1:04.5

center. The priest bluntly told me I was a sinner by being born. Next he

1:10.4

instructed me to confess my sins to him.

1:13.0

I remember feeling confused by his request.

1:15.7

At age seven I didn't have a laundry list of sins to admit.

1:19.1

He instructed me to tell him anything that could make God upset. Instead of confessing to him, I lied and said I was mean to my brother.

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